“Red for the blood we make our foes bleed

White for the honor that goes down to our bone

Grey for the death-shroud we defiantly meet

In whose face we stand as we defend our home.”  - Blodgevir Hymn

Ancient legends whispered throughout Lannock tell of a mythic warrior, a

man who fought off hordes of threats to his homeland with such ferocity

that Daud himself feared to bring him to Val-Noran.  This warrior was

known as the Rodinnhjörtr, the Bloody Red Stag, and it was said that in

times of great need he would return to this world through his descendants

to fight for his homeland once more.  Visions of this Bloody Red Stag have

haunted Bregnor for years and have driven him to find the truth of these

stories. He is a descendant of a great warrior, could he be the Rodinnhjörtr

reincarnated? He seeks the truth of these stories, and to become worthy of

the title of “the Bloody Stag” of which he has become known.

This quest inspired others to follow him, wandering warriors from the roots

of the Hearthlands who fought as mercenaries across Adrasil that came to

be known as “Antlers”.  The Antlers brought hearty amounts of coin to the

Hearthguard and caught the eye of the Queen Tove, who sanctioned the

Antlers as a mercenary guild in service to the Hearthlands. With this action

came a request, that the best of these ranks of warriors would be formed

into a fist of shieldkin that would answer the call of the Queen and her Jarls

to war.

Bregnor, now a Huskarl, looked to his growing Antlers and decided that

three main tenets must be followed, and those that wholly embodied these

tenets would be chosen as his shieldkin fist.  They must fight with ferocious

skill, always being the first to carve a battlefield red with blood; they must

have infallible honor to their people, their home, and their leader; and they

must never falter in the face of death, but stare it down defiantly and fight to

the bitter end.  In these ways the Antlers would honor their people, their

home, their leader, and the legacy of the Rodinnhjörtr, becoming vestiges

of his legend to write their names into the annals of the Hearthlands

forevermore.  They would baptize their antlers in blood, becoming warriors

of legend.  

They would become the Blodgevir.

ARMOR AND KIT

As the Blodgevir are travelers and mercenaries, they build their armor to

achieve a balance of mobility and protection. They must be ready to set

out on the road or head to a fight in a moment’s notice, so their armor must

be able to be donned easily and be worn for days at a time. The usage of

their armor can lead to wear and tear, and kit bashed pieces of gear as well

as asymmetric looks can help achieve this. Blodgevir are not opposed to

using their earnings for new armor to use as “statement” pieces, yet they

will still always try to find some use for their old gear.

The Blodgevir are also keen on the use of tokens and trinkets in their kit.

Each Blodgevir comes into service with an antler token to symbolize their

service with the Antler mercenaries, and they must blood it in their initiation

to the Blodgevir to symbolize their new path. Their antler is also adorned

with the colors of their Fist as red, white, and grey ribbons to symbolize

their devotion to the tenets of the Blodgevir and the Bloody Stag. As they

continue in their journeys in the Hearthlands and Olaran, they will be

outfitted with more ribbons to symbolize acts of devotion to each of the

tenets, becoming symbols of valor among their ranks.